Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ?

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Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? ...

I saw a quote from a Forth book which said LIT was also
useful to eliminate dictionary lookups of numbers when
loading and compiling a vocabulary.

So, instead of:

: ONE 1 ;  \ LIT compiled by innner interpreter

this would be used in a vocabulary:

: ONE LIT 1 ;  \ LIT explicitly used

Here, 1 is not searched for in the dictionary by the inner
interpreter when compiling ONE due to the use of LIT .

I'd like to use that syntax in my vocabulary, but I think
it creates some problems.  I already have a historically
based run-time LIT which works differently.

A new "high-level" LIT as used in ": ONE LIT 1 ;" would
need to be something like the following:

: LIT BL WORD NUMBER POSTPONE LITERAL ; IMMEDIATE

Except, LITERAL calls the original run-time LIT:

: LITERAL POSTPONE LIT , ; IMMEDIATE
: LIT R> DUP "cell_adjustment" >R @ ;

This creates a name conflict between the two LITs, since
my vocabulary would need to use both at the same time.

A common option in such naming conflict situations is to
rename the run-time, wrapping it in paren's, e.g.: (LIT) .
Except, I don't want to change the historical name of the
original run-time LIT .  It seems to be well accepted.

So, is there a common name for such a high-level LIT?
Or, was there a version of LIT that did both?
And, is this technique even used anymore?


Rod Pemberton

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Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-01 20:24 -0400
  Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-07-01 19:39 -1000
    Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-07-02 10:30 -0700
      Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-07-02 08:53 -1000
      Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-07-02 13:47 -0700
        Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-07-02 19:45 -0700
          Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-07-03 16:56 +0000
            Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-07-03 10:34 -0700
  Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-07-02 01:27 -0700
    Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-07-02 17:11 +0200
      Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-07-02 16:31 +0000
        Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-07-02 20:32 +0200
      Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-03 03:01 -0400
        Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-07-02 21:42 -1000
        Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-07-03 16:05 +0000
    Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-03 03:00 -0400
  Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-07-02 09:35 +0000
    Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-07-02 06:51 -1000
  Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2014-07-02 14:30 -0700
    Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-03 03:51 -0400
  Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-07-03 02:41 -0700
    Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-07-03 11:44 +0100
      Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-07-03 06:03 -0700
        Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-07-03 15:16 +0100
          Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-07-03 16:31 +0000
            Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-07-03 19:58 +0100
              Re: Reduce dictionary lookups using LIT ? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-07-03 20:02 +0100

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